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Ending a 19-year war, Angola's warring factions signed a ceasefire agreement today. Under the plan signed by top generals of the government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), fighting -- which began on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975 -- will stop Wednesday. The truce will remain in effect until final details emerge as part of a United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan...
...UNITA, ITALY: "An invasion is unlikely. Sending in the Marines after a disastrous political and diplomatic zigzag is opposed by the Pentagon and State Department...
...stations, thrilled by the prospect of peace. The first free elections, held under U.N. auspices, were designed to end the war between the government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, once backed by the Soviet Union and now recognized by the U.S., and Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the UNITA rebel movement. Savimbi refused to accept the government's 129-to-91-seat election victory and plunged Angola back into ferocious conflict that has so far claimed an additional 100,000 lives...
Last week there was some cause for hope when the government in Luanda agreed to resume peace talks in response to a UNITA announcement that it was ready to accept last year's election results. But the rebel movement, which will be hit next month by U.N. sanctions that include a freezing of its global assets and the expulsion of its diplomats from world capitals, has yet to demonstrate its bona fides by relinquishing its hold over 65% of the country, a territorial concession demanded by the government as a precondition for peace...
Playing politics with food, both sides are blocking aid to rival regions. The U.N., many argue, must also share blame for the aid debacle. After one of its relief planes was hit by UNITA gunfire in Mbanza Congo in July, U.N. special representative Alioune Blondin Beye, arguing that the flights had become too dangerous, ordered a halt to further air deliveries. Levels of food aid to cities like Malanje plummeted. Some U.N. officials claim that Beye would rather spend his time negotiating an overall peace than haggling with the contending factions about which relief flights can land where...